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It's fitting that Machete originated as a trailer
, albeit a fake one, attached to Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's '70s-exploitation-movie homage Grindhouse. Trailers routinely assemble the most exciting parts of a movie into a two-minute punch, and in trailer form, the spectacularly violent adventures of a Mexican vigilante, driven home by subterranean-deep narration, certainly looked like one hell of an awesome movie. But a trailer isn't a film, and in producing the feature-length version of Machete, Rodriguez and co-director Ethan Maniquis haven't made the necessary adjustments. They try to make Machete into an extended trailer that's all best parts, stitched together by a sloppy, needlessly convoluted plot and a lot of bluntly explicit messaging on the immigration issue. It's often stylish and exciting, but the pile-up of cool kills, hot bodies, and other unprocessed bits of juvenilia doesn't add up to a good time.